SVT-AV1 v3.0 Release Announcement (AOMedia)
Announcement of SVT-AV1 3.0: 15-25% speedups in presets M3-M10 fast-decode mode, 10-25% Arm SVE2 high-bit-depth gains, lossless and AVIF modes, and PSY features merged into tune 0.
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